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jan 28, 1857 - Marriage can divorce (only men)

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1857—Founding of National Portrait Gallery.
First telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic.
Matrimonial Causes Act permits divorce for adultery (but women could not petition until 1923).
Suppression of Indian mutiny against British rule in India.

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Victorian era

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jan 28, 1857
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~ 168 years ago
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